newarenanow wrote:Played Metroid again for a little bit. Beat the boss in Sector 3. Now I'm in Sector 2, just pretty much started. Have 32 missles, 3 charge parts, 5 energy parts, 2 energy tanks, and have up to the Varia suit started. Decent game so far. Controls are a little tough at first, but after a while, you get used to them.

I've hit a dead end in my game of original metroid. I think i gotta just start shooting and bombing everywhere to try and find some hidden rooms.

Where are you stuck?

2 energy packsa bunch of misslesthe freeze gun

i beat that kraid guy...probably a little earlier than i was supposed to since i don't have any suit upgrades and my latest weapon is the freeze gun. do i have to beat another boss to get past the one part with the two statue thingies with the lava underneath?

jesus...explanations of where you are in metroid must be what schizophrenics hear in there heads.

newarenanow wrote:Played Metroid again for a little bit. Beat the boss in Sector 3. Now I'm in Sector 2, just pretty much started. Have 32 missles, 3 charge parts, 5 energy parts, 2 energy tanks, and have up to the Varia suit started. Decent game so far. Controls are a little tough at first, but after a while, you get used to them.

I've hit a dead end in my game of original metroid. I think i gotta just start shooting and bombing everywhere to try and find some hidden rooms.

Where are you stuck?

2 energy packsa bunch of misslesthe freeze gun

i beat that kraid guy...probably a little earlier than i was supposed to since i don't have any suit upgrades and my latest weapon is the freeze gun. do i have to beat another boss to get past the one part with the two statue thingies with the lava underneath?

jesus...explanations of where you are in metroid must be what schizophrenics hear in there heads.

Yes, you have to find and beat Ridley. You probably need to find a few other items as well. Since it's an open world, it's kind of hard to explain where to go. You'll probably have to find a map online to get to Ridley.

newarenanow wrote:Played Metroid again for a little bit. Beat the boss in Sector 3. Now I'm in Sector 2, just pretty much started. Have 32 missles, 3 charge parts, 5 energy parts, 2 energy tanks, and have up to the Varia suit started. Decent game so far. Controls are a little tough at first, but after a while, you get used to them.

I've hit a dead end in my game of original metroid. I think i gotta just start shooting and bombing everywhere to try and find some hidden rooms.

Where are you stuck?

2 energy packsa bunch of misslesthe freeze gun

i beat that kraid guy...probably a little earlier than i was supposed to since i don't have any suit upgrades and my latest weapon is the freeze gun. do i have to beat another boss to get past the one part with the two statue thingies with the lava underneath?

jesus...explanations of where you are in metroid must be what schizophrenics hear in there heads.

Yes, you have to find and beat Ridley. You probably need to find a few other items as well. Since it's an open world, it's kind of hard to explain where to go. You'll probably have to find a map online to get to Ridley.

i'm trying to avoid getting too much help, but we'll see how long it will take for me to get fed up

I’ve attempted a couple of unmanned missions to Eve (the equivalent of Venus) in Kerbal Space Program. I don’t know how I would do it without a plugin called Protractor (http://kerbalspaceport.com/protractor-for-ksp-0-18/). In order to transfer from one planet to another, not only must the two planets be at certain angles to one another (the phase angle, or θ), but you have to make the transfer burn at a certain angle to your orbit (the ejection angle, or ψ). Protractor calculates those angles and sets the display so that the time to make the burn is when both numbers are at zero. It’s called Protractor because if you don’t have the plugin, you actually have to hold a protractor up to the screen to calculate θ and ψ. Protractor will get you in the general neighborhood of the other planet, you will still need to set some maneuver nodes along the way and fiddle with burning normal, anti-normal, radial in, and radial out until you get an encounter with the planet. The first time I made it to Eve I didn’t have enough delta-v left to get into a polar orbit, so I only managed to map a stripe of the planet using MapSat. And my lander crashed because I was fidding with the thrust during descent. For the second mission, I had a great approach and then screwed everything up by accidentally increasing the time acceleration rather than reducing it. I ended up flying past the Eve encounter entirely. Oops.

Shyster wrote:I’ve attempted a couple of unmanned missions to Eve (the equivalent of Venus) in Kerbal Space Program. I don’t know how I would do it without a plugin called Protractor (http://kerbalspaceport.com/protractor-for-ksp-0-18/). In order to transfer from one planet to another, not only must the two planets be at certain angles to one another (the phase angle, or θ), but you have to make the transfer burn at a certain angle to your orbit (the ejection angle, or ψ). Protractor calculates those angles and sets the display so that the time to make the burn is when both numbers are at zero. It’s called Protractor because if you don’t have the plugin, you actually have to hold a protractor up to the screen to calculate θ and ψ. Protractor will get you in the general neighborhood of the other planet, you will still need to set some maneuver nodes along the way and fiddle with burning normal, anti-normal, radial in, and radial out until you get an encounter with the planet. The first time I made it to Eve I didn’t have enough delta-v left to get into a polar orbit, so I only managed to map a stripe of the planet using MapSat. And my lander crashed because I was fidding with the thrust during descent. For the second mission, I had a great approach and then screwed everything up by accidentally increasing the time acceleration rather than reducing it. I ended up flying past the Eve encounter entirely. Oops.

newarenanow wrote:Played Metroid again for a little bit. Beat the boss in Sector 3. Now I'm in Sector 2, just pretty much started. Have 32 missles, 3 charge parts, 5 energy parts, 2 energy tanks, and have up to the Varia suit started. Decent game so far. Controls are a little tough at first, but after a while, you get used to them.

I've hit a dead end in my game of original metroid. I think i gotta just start shooting and bombing everywhere to try and find some hidden rooms.

Where are you stuck?

2 energy packsa bunch of misslesthe freeze gun

i beat that kraid guy...probably a little earlier than i was supposed to since i don't have any suit upgrades and my latest weapon is the freeze gun. do i have to beat another boss to get past the one part with the two statue thingies with the lava underneath?

jesus...explanations of where you are in metroid must be what schizophrenics hear in there heads.

Yes, you have to find and beat Ridley. You probably need to find a few other items as well. Since it's an open world, it's kind of hard to explain where to go. You'll probably have to find a map online to get to Ridley.

Ok I quit. I saw a walk through on youtube and about 99.99% of the rest of the game is finding random secret spots to drop bombs. Boooo, metroid programmers. Boo.

Got the Super Speed Burst in Metroid Other M. That thing is pretty cool. Enjoying the game so far.

Agree with twc though on the controls. I was fighting 2 bad guys and at a point, they get charged up and only a missle shot turns them vulnerable again. You switch to first person view, and by that time, they are jumping all around, and by the time you find them, they jump on you with an overblast move. Just frustrating because you can't move and it is difficult going from first to third person in fast battles.

Made it again to Eve last night, and this time I put the probe down properly and also angled the satellite with the ISA MapSat dish into polar orbit. It takes a lot of delta-v to change orbital inclination, but a big fuel tank coupled with a pair of fuel-efficient atomic engines meant I had enough to do it. To make sure I had enough fuel left, I upsized the lifter I used for launch back on Kerbin so that it still had enough fuel left to also perform the transfer burn for Eve (it took about 1,000 m/s of delta-v). Also, the atomic engines have very low thrust, and even with two of them pushing a pretty small ship, the transfer burn takes a long time. I think it’s better to do that burn with something more vigorous.

Eve is very… purple. The land is purple, the sky is pink/purple/blue, the scattered lakes that certainly aren’t full of water also seem to be purple. It would be possible to land Kerbals on Eve, but it won’t be easy to get them back off. The atmosphere is way thinker than Kerbin’s and it also extends out to 90 km, so the atmospheric drag for a launch would be tremendous. I’d have to land something equivalent to a heavy-lift rocket to have any prayer of getting back into orbit. Hmm….